International Women's Day: The Countries Where Women Feel They Lack Equality [Infographic]

Today marks International Women's Day, an annual commemoration and observation of the struggle for women's rights that traces its origins back to 1909. To mark the occasion, Ipsos Mori released a new report detailing the state of gender equality across the globe. While it found that nine in ten men and women believe in equal opportunities, it also revealed that three-quarters of women think inequality still exists in their country while 40 percent say they personally do not have equality.

The following infographic uses data from the report and shows the countries where women either disagree very much or disagree somewhat that they "have full equality with men and freedom to reach their full dreams and aspirations". The highest level of disagreement with that statement was recorded in Spain (73 percent), followed by Japan (67 percent), South Korea (64 percent) and Turkey (62 percent).

Women feel they have more equality in the United States with 37 percent of those polled by Ipsos Mori disagreeing with the above statement. Even fewer disagreed with the statement in India and China while the lowest rate of disagreement (just 12 percent) was recorded in Russia.